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<blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 440657" data-attributes="member: 337">As an &quot;award winning scientist&quot; (a trusted expert in some arenas - haha) I concur.However - the degree to which I've seen &quot;science&quot; twisted and manipulated to suit political or ideological agendas in recent years horrified me (see COVID).So much so that I've now gone back and looked at previous science-based decisions in gov't (eggs, margarine, seed oils, pesticides, herbicides, AIDs, and on and on) and found myself to be equally horrified at the true motivations that drove the gov'ts decisions - and it certainly wasn't the health/benefit of John Q. Public.COVID revealed, once again, that evil/greed/selfishness/perversion is what motivates most people - and those in power are able to act on them. It's the human condition. I'm now at the point where I question EVERYTHING the government does. To not be cynical would be the definition of foolish. To not be cynical is to NOT practice science.Fool me once, shame on me...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="guywhofishes, post: 440657, member: 337"] As an "award winning scientist" (a trusted expert in some arenas - haha) I concur. However - the degree to which I've seen "science" twisted and manipulated to suit political or ideological agendas in recent years horrified me (see COVID). So much so that I've now gone back and looked at previous science-based decisions in gov't (eggs, margarine, seed oils, pesticides, herbicides, AIDs, and on and on) and found myself to be equally horrified at the true motivations that drove the gov'ts decisions - and it certainly wasn't the health/benefit of John Q. Public. COVID revealed, once again, that evil/greed/selfishness/perversion is what motivates most people - and those in power are able to act on them. It's the human condition. I'm now at the point where I question EVERYTHING the government does. To not be cynical would be the definition of foolish. To not be cynical is to NOT practice science. Fool me once, shame on me... [/QUOTE]

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